Anan

Acceptable For Game Play - UK word list

This word is acceptable for play in the UK dictionary that is being used in the following games:

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • interjection. An expression equivalent to What did you say? Sir? Eh?
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • At once; immediately; anon.
  • An interrogative particle signifying that one has not heard or comprehended what has been said.
  • [In this sense formerly, and still dialectally, much used in replying to questions or commands, to gain a slight delay, though originally implying “I will attend to you at once”; hence, with an interrogative tone, it came to imply that the question or command was not understood. It is the same word as anon.]
  • Word Usage
    "Mai taught me that "anan" means cloud in Hebrew, while we were reading Kofi Anan's bio in the book of the Forum's constituents."